Hi, ArisenStar / @kacearoze here.
I learned today that someone decided to use baseless arguments and the death of a close friend of mine as ammunition to falsely accuse me as being "transphobic". It's clear from the first sentence of the defamatory post that the purpose of this is to just get some traction for a toxic witchhunt. I'll answer some questions here and now because I don't want my silence to be taken as compliance.
a) Who is this person? This person is from an old friend group I was a part of from 2011-2015 (I might be off by a year). Back then, I decided it was best for me to walk away from this friend group, for the sake of my deteriorating mental health. Many people from this group were notorious for drama and inflicting emotional abuse upon me and many others who were victims to daily bullying, emotional blackmail and sexual harassment. I wanted to get away from it and yet to this day, almost 10 years later, I still find those same bullies trying to harass me and my girlfriend. The most interesting part about this is that I was under the impression that my last interaction with the poster was anywhere between positive to neutral. We never had a single negative interaction between the two of us; which is exceptional because it was hard to avoid toxicity inside the group we used to be a part of. We simply drifted away to different places, with time. There was never any bad blood, and if there was, it was never even hinted at to me. b) Am I transphobic, or anti-LGTBQ+? No, never was, never will be. I have all my journals up, all my deviations up, and every single comment I've posted since I created this account, and despite some cringey things that came out of a 14-year me , I still refuse to hide or delete anything from my past (unlike others). There is nothing to indicate that I harbour any hatred towards any group of people whatsoever. I am as transparent as I can be.
c) Why was this journal posted, then? I will assume either due to a misunderstanding, for attention, or to ruin my reputation over a broken friendship. A fourth potential reason, and this is a fact that was revealed by the poster, both privately initially, and then again later publicly: he suffers from schizophrenia. As someone who is majoring in psychology, I can safely tell you (and you are all free to research this yourself) that people who suffer from schizophrenic episodes unfortunately have false beliefs or delusions that "someone is out to get them". It would not shock me if the interactions that I had with this person were wildly misconstrued and warped to become something baseless of reality; in other words, he saw malice when malice was never truly there. d) Who is the friend that committed suicide, as mentioned in the post? One of the first people I met on this website, known as "Zander". Zander was my friend before being the poster's friend. For some reason, the poster finds it appropriate to speak on the behalf of someone who is now dead, resting in peace, as a clickbaity way for the post to gain infamy. There is no reason to bring that beautiful soul into this as a weapon for your personal quarrel with me.
e) Did the poster ever reach out to me first to try to discuss their feelings before publishing their post? Not at all. I wish he did, because then we could have had a mature conversation about it to dispel any of the falsehoods, or at least allow me to understand his feelings and concerns and hopefully reach a resolution together. I am still open to talk it out like the adults we are today. We aren't 14 years old anymore for this to be acceptable behaviour, not that it ever was to begin with.
As someone who has friends and family members in the LGBTQ+ community, and who dearly supports all of them, it is wild for me to be accused of something like this, in such a shameful manner in 2021. I will leave the link to the journal posted below for all to form their own opinion on the matter.
To those who have taken the time to read this, thank you. I still would like to resolve whatever issues this person has with me privately. The sole reason I am speaking about this publicly is because of the following post:
EDIT 1 :
Seems the pathological liar is doubling down on his claims and not backing down on the attacks. I'm just going to post the screenshots of his comments (which anyone can see by visiting his original post linked above). I don't understand how he wants to convince anyone of anything when blatant lies like this appear out in the open. The journal was nothing more than a hit-piece.
EDIT 2: Admitting that everything written about me was fabrication and without evidence:
EDIT 3: Tries to pull another lie, claiming he was younger than us by "several years". We are, in fact, the same age, give or take a few months.
All in all, I hope whoever reads this can see through the blatant lies and can form their own judgement on the matter. Sad that I need to clear my name from lies, but you'll always have people trying to tear you down for their own pleasure. That's life. Move foreward! :D